SBI Backs Temple Digital to Expand Trading on Canton Network

SBI Holdings led an undisclosed funding round in Temple Digital Group, a New York company building a noncustodial trading platform and a global asset registry on the Canton Network. The firm said the capital will support product development and preparations to list regulated markets in the second half of 2026.

Temple is developing a native trading engine, an issuance platform and a registry designed to run on Canton, a public, permissionless blockchain intended for institutional finance and supported by several Wall Street firms. Temple says its platform will enable privacy-preserving, real-time settlement and composability with other financial applications while allowing the listing and trading of traditional market instruments.

Temple is the top featured application on Canton by network revenue. It recently released a performance upgrade called Lightspeed, which Temple says provides sub-second matching and can handle up to 100,000 orders per second on Canton’s Global Synchronizer.

SBI is a founding partner and a super validator on the Canton Network and led the funding round without disclosing the amount. Juan Manuel Gomez, general manager at SBI Holdings, said: “Temple stands out as the premier trading platform on Canton, its sub-second matching and privacy-first architecture deliver exactly the kind of institutional-grade infrastructure the ecosystem needs. This investment reflects strong strategic alignment with SBI Group’s expanding digital asset business, and we believe Temple is well positioned to become essential market infrastructure as tokenized assets scale across global capital markets.”

The investment follows other activity by SBI in digital assets. The group leads a consortium building regulated, around-the-clock tokenized equity trading in Japan and internationally, has entered talks to acquire a stake in the crypto exchange Bitbank, and has absorbed the exchange Bitpoint. SBI also has an agreement with Visa to issue credit cards that convert spending rewards into cryptocurrency.

Temple said the funding will accelerate product work and regulatory preparations ahead of its planned listings in 2026. The company plans to use Canton’s privacy and settlement features to offer a noncustodial trading option for institutional workflows and to connect tokenized assets with existing market structures.